Correspondence, memoranda, reports, studies, minutes of meetings, conference proceedings, bulletins, financial records, and
printed matter, relating to NATO, and American foreign, military and economic policy. Includes records of the Atlantic Institute,
the Atlantic Treaty Association, the Committee on Atlantic Studies, and the Atlantic Congress of 1959.

Background

The Atlantic Council of the United States was established in 1961 in Washington, D.C. It is a private American organization
which encourages U.S. participation in the North Atlantic Treaty Organization and other international relations. The Council
also works for the strengthening of U.S. private sector links in the fields of trade, finance, investment, sciences, technology,
communications and education with the other North Atlantic countries.